Kim Cattrall Says Pressure To Stay Young in Hollywood Is "Suffocating"

"Men age, too, don't they?"

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Kim Cattrall gave a speech at the MIPTV television conference in Cannes about her new show Sensitive Skin, and said a lot of candid things about what it's like to be an older woman in Hollywood (via The Guardian).

"I believe that women my age have very much to say, and unfortunately this business doesn't recognize that most of the time," Cattrall said. She also lamented the "pressure to stay young" that Hollywood places on female actresses, and called it "suffocating."

Cattrall wants her new show, a dark comedy about aging — it's a remake of a BBC show that originally starred Absolutely Fabulous' Joanna Lumley — to appeal to a broad audience despite seeming like a "women's program." "It's a human story," she explained. "Men age, too, don't they?"

She also talked about how hard it is to go back to television after doing theater, which she believes often offers better roles for women. "Theater almost makes it impossible to work in television, because the writing is so great," Cattrall said. "When you go from that to reading television scripts, you think, ugh! Especially from a woman's point of view, they don't really know what to do with me. I don't want to play someone's wife and become a joke about plastic surgery."